WASHINGTONPOST (Dan Simmons) - Wasps are chasing Midwesterners indoors. What’s behind the surge?
Pest-control companies have been flooded this year with requests to remove nests.
NYTIMES (Annie Roth) - What Did Jurassic Forests Sound Like? Like This.
Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.
AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Researchers reconstruct sounds of Jurassic insects from fossilized wings
Scientists have used fossilized insect wings and advanced modeling to recreate the strange calls that once filled Jurassic forests, offering a glimpse into a long-lost world that challenges our assumptions about the past. A team led by Dr. Fernando Montealegre-Zapata from the University of Lincoln analyzed 20 fossils from nine insect species, all found in […] The post Researchers reconstruct sounds of Jurassic insects from fossilized wings appeared first on American Almanac .
Scientists have used fossilized insect wings and advanced modeling to recreate the strange calls that once filled Jurassic forests, offering a glimpse into a long-lost world that challenges our assumptions about the past. A team led by Dr. Fernando Montealegre-Zapata from the University of Lincoln analyzed 20 fossils from nine insect species, all found in China’s Inner Mongolia region and dating back roughly 165 million years. These ancient bugs, ancestors of today’s grasshoppers and katydids, left behind wing structures with microscopic ridges and a scraper known as a plectrum, clues that helped the team reconstruct their calls. Using microscope scans, laser measurements, computer modeling, and machine learning, the researchers…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Dragonfly swarms fill California skies by the thousands, and experts say they're doing residents a favor
Massive swarms of dragonflies have descended on California's Bay Area this summer, filling parks and waterfronts with hundreds of the insects, and scientists say the surge is driven by an abundance of mosquitoes. Residents across San Francisco and Oakland have reported skies thick with dragonflies in recent weeks, with the insects spotted in such numbers […] The post Dragonfly swarms fill California skies by the thousands, and experts say they're doing residents a favor appeared first on American Almanac .
Massive swarms of dragonflies have descended on California's Bay Area this summer, filling parks and waterfronts with hundreds of the insects, and scientists say the surge is driven by an abundance of mosquitoes. Residents across San Francisco and Oakland have reported skies thick with dragonflies in recent weeks, with the insects spotted in such numbers that some have been observed mating on top of people's hats. The swarms have appeared at Lake Merritt in Oakland, along the Russian River near Guerneville, and at Dolores Park in San Francisco, the Daily Mail reported . Chris Grinter, the senior collection manager of entomology at the California Academy of Sciences, pointed to a straightforward explanation for the boom. He told SFGATE: …Open
NYTIMES (Muktita Suhartono and Ulet Ifansasti) - In Bali, a Quest to Restore the Sacred Glow of Fireflies
The insects, revered in local culture, are disappearing for many reasons, including rapid development to cater to tourists.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Mom says she was given days to live after spider-bite nightmare
A Kansas mother of four says was left fighting for her life after suffering multiple spider bites while enjoying a campfire with her family at a local lake.
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NEWSNATIONNOW (Josie Fischels) - New spider species 'catapults' ants into its web at bullet speed
Scientists just found a spider that hunts by catapult.
NPR (Ari Daniel) - 'Superworms' help scientists with a vexing task: Cleaning animal specimens
The larvae of a beetle native to South and Central America, the critters are the perfect solution to sticky problem: How to prepare an animal skeleton for scientific use.
Zophobas morio, are often used as animal feed. But researchers have discovered they also like to feed on animal corpses and can be used to clean specimens.'/Open
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - USDA Lets Loose 400 Million Lab-Bred Flies to Counteract Flesh-Eating Screwworms.
The USDA is deploying hundreds of millions of flies bred in a factory to prevent the reestablishment of the New World screwworm in the U.S., a parasite capable of devastating livestock and wildlife, and occasionally infecting humans.
The USDA is deploying hundreds of millions of flies bred in a factory to prevent the reestablishment of the New World screwworm in the U.S., a parasite capable of devastating livestock and wildlife , and occasionally infecting humans. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) has released nearly 400 million sterile flies over Texas and northern Mexico to combat the spread of the New World screwworm , a flesh-eating parasite that threatens livestock, wildlife, pets, and occasionally humans. This effort aims to prevent the parasite from becoming reestablished in the United States after confirmed cases were reported in Texas and New Mexico last month. DETAIL: The campaign relies on breeding sterile insects en…Open